The Middle East Quartet

A Progress Report

The humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory continues. Its population of 3.7 million people, 52 per cent of whom are children, struggle for their basic needs. Palestinian women, children, and men are increasingly dependent on aid as their livelihoods are destroyed.

The only sustainable solution to the crisis is a comprehensive peace settlement between Israelis and Palestinians based on international law. As humanitarian and development and human rights organizations, we believe that immediate steps can and must be taken to relieve suffering, as well as to ensure that a peace agreement is eventually reached.

A joint agency report from CAFOD, CARE, Christian Aid, DanChurchAid, diakonia, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, medico international, Medicos del Mundo, Oxfam International, Save the Children, United Civilians for Peace (a coalition of Dutch organisations – Oxfam Novib, Cordaid, ICCO and IKV Pax Christi), and World Vision Jerusalem.

Publication date: September 2008